Container Item Number: H2.22 from the MOA: University of British Columbia

Description

A spherical orange-brown gourd with a small stalk at the top. Shallowly carved onto the sides, revealing a lighter colour than the outer skin, is a complex village scene with trees, houses, various human figures and a bull fight--the top and bottom have geometric and floral borders. Red colour has been applied in several places, as have a small number of places been blackened by burning. A jack-o'-lantern-like top with a zigzagging edge has been cut out around the stalk.